Coming to a theater near you
It's just fiction?
The North Carolina Piedmont Triad's top go-to source for News
A service of the News & Record, Greensboro, North Carolina
« Does anything change? | Main | When a life is lost »
It's just fiction?
Due to recent automated spamming attacks on our blogs, we are temporarily requiring commenters to authenticate themselves via TypeKey® before posting comments to any News & Record blog in order to prevent denials of service. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
Comments (7)
To report abuse of the comment feature on this site, please use the feedback form at the bottom of any page.
Fact or fiction, I loved this book. I wish people would just read this and the Harry Potter series and treat them as what they are...fictional works.
Posted on August 17, 2005 5:15 PM
I agree about Potter. Davinci Code seemed too far fetched for me, much like a James Bond movie. Wat to muc intellectual sneering...
Posted on August 17, 2005 8:19 PM
Yeah, but James Bond as a professor of antiquities? Pretty odd. The only thing I didn't care for in he book was the timeline. I doubt Tom Hanks could stay on the go non-stop for about 36-48 straight hours and still have any wits left for a final confrontation with Opus Dei. {;-)
Posted on August 17, 2005 8:36 PM
Quote from Frank Devine's review of the DiVinci Code:
Deriding Brown's pretensions to knowledge of Leonardo's work, Boucher*** wrote that the novel had the makings of an opera rather than a movie because, in Voltaire's words: "If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung."
***Bruce Boucher is the curator of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Posted on August 18, 2005 10:16 AM
I dunno much about Da Vinci's work either but if I wanted to learn about him, I would not have picked up this fictional book to accomplish that so that dude is as silly as the statement he made, in my opinion. Again, it was a good yarn, that's all.
Posted on August 18, 2005 2:03 PM
it was a good yarn, that's all.
That's exactly what Mr. Boucher was infering, govwriter and used the quote from Voltaire to say that in a slightly different way.
Posted on August 18, 2005 2:25 PM
OK. I'm operating on one hour of sleep over here so I'm more dull at the edges than normal. (smile)
Posted on August 18, 2005 6:17 PM